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Free Download Textbook of Robotic Liver Surgery
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031765354 | 258 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 183 MB
After an initial slow diffusion of minimal invasive approaches in liver surgery, laparoscopy has now been implemented worldwide. This process has been sped up after several papers showed the superiority of laparoscopy over the open approach with regard to short-term outcomes. Before, the adaptation and diffusion of LLS was much slower compared to other general surgical specialties. The challenge in controlling major hemorrhage, the risk of gas embolism, the steepness of the learning curve and the uncertainty about oncological outcomes were barriers for the implementation of LLS. Nowadays, laparoscopic liver resections (LLR) are considered safe and feasible. The same evolution is seen in the diffusion of robotic liver surgery (RLS). The first reported robotic liver resection was published in 2003. Introduction of RLS has remained very slow compared to other subspecialties. This could be attributed to the complexity of minimally invasive liver surgery and the steep learning curve to overcome. Furthermore, the absence of instruments for parenchyma transection appeared to be a barrier for many surgeons to start RLS. Nowadays, Robotic liver surgery is in it’s pioneering phase and limited to a few high volume centers. Furthermore data regarding the implementation of RLS are still scarce and the reproducibility of the implementation is still debated. This textbook will offer readers a useful overview of RLS state of the art, collecting the contributions of renowned robotic liver surgeons from Europe, Asia and the Americas. The editors will collaborate with a professional medical illustrator specialized in minimal invasive liver surgery to offer readers a visual experience of the most important surgical steps.

Free Download Rinaldo C. Michelini, "Duty-Split Approach in Robotic Surgery "
English | ISBN: 1616682329 | 2010 | 57 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Mini-invasive surgery deserves increasing attention to lower post-operative stays in hospitals and to lessen fall-off complications. This new book is devoted to surgical robotics, with a focus on technology and design issues of the remote-mode operation assistants. The investigation leads to define the technical characteristics of a CRHA, co-robotic handling appliance, to be purposely developed, to support the duty-split approach surgical planner.

Free Download Robotic Sailing 2012: Proceedings of the 5th International Robotic Sailing Conference By Oren Gal, Eran Zeitouni (auth.), Colin Sauzé, James Finnis (eds.)
2013 | 131 Pages | ISBN: 3642330835 | PDF | 13 MB
Robotic sailing offers the potential of wind propelled vehicles which are sufficiently autonomous to remain at sea for months at a time. These could replace or augment existing oceanographic sampling systems, be used in border surveillance and security or offer a means of carbon neutral transportation. To achieve this represents a complex, multi-disciplinary challenge to boat designers and naval architects, systems/electrical engineers and computer scientists. Since 2004 a series of competitions in the form of the Sailbot, World Robotic Sailing Championship and Microtransat competitions have sparked an explosion in the number of groups working on autonomous sailing robots. Despite this interest the longest distance sailed autonomously remains only a few hundred miles. Many of the challenges in building truly autonomous sailing robots still remain unsolved. These proceedings present the cutting edge of work in a variety of fields related to robotic sailing. They will be presented during the 5th International Robtoic Sailing Conference, which is taking place as part of the 2012 World Robotic Sailing Championships.

Free Download Scrub Nurse in Minimally Invasive and Robotic General Surgery: Endorsed by the Italian Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery & New technologies and by the Italian Association of Scrub Nurses by Marco Milone, Ferdinando Agresta, Mario Guerrieri
English | April 14, 2024 | ISBN: 3031422562 | 394 pages | MOBI | 32 Mb
This comprehensive book provides an excellent overview on the role of the scrub and circulating nurse during minimally invasive procedures and a detailed description of the specific instruments adopted during surgical procedures in each subspecialty areas as esophago-gastric, colorectal, endocrino-metabolic, hepato-biliary, spleno-pancreatic and abdominal wall surgery. The concept that laparoscopy now allows everyone to actively see all the surgical steps and therefore to be no longer just a simple "another man/woman in the theatre" but an active actor. The need therefore for all the nurses – and above all the scrub ones – to know and to have the knowledge – and therefore to have in a sort of parallelism thanks to this manual – the purely medical surgical steps with the corresponding and parallel nursing ones: an added value in the training and preparation of the all the people involved in surgery. This practical book correlated by images guides scrub nurse in all operative phases. The Scrub Nurse in Minimally Invasive and Robotic General Surgery also explores the legal aspects in the scrub nursing.The Italian Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgery & New technologies and the Italian Association of Scrub Nurses endorse this book.

Free Download Robotic Process Automation Technology in Supply Chain Management:
Practical Applications for Simplifying Workflows
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032891882 | 192 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 58 MB

Free Download Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications: Artificial Muscles and Sensors By R. Samatham, K. J. Kim, D. Dogruer (auth.), Kwang J. Kim PhD, Satoshi Tadokoro (eds.)
2007 | 281 Pages | ISBN: 184628371X | PDF | 5 MB
Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations. They are dynamic actuators which have attracted attention from an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and scientists. An enabling EAP technology is emerging which attempts to imitate the properties of natural muscle and which, as a result, can perform a unique function in a variety of biologically-inspired robotics applications.Electroactive Polymers for Robotics Applications covers the fundamental properties, modelling and demonstration of EAPs in robotic applications, focusing particularly on artificial muscles and sensors. Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators and Dielectric Elastomers are discussed within the book with chapters on their properties and their uses in robotics applications.With its concentration on devices based on EAPs and their uses, Electroactive Polymers for Robotics Applications will be of interest to researchers working within this field as well as to postgraduate students studying robotics or smart materials and structures. Practitioners working in the mechanical, electrical and materials industries will also find this book of value.

Free Download Secure Coordination Control of Networked Robotic Systems: From a Control Theory Perspective by Xiaolei Li, Jiange Wang, Xiaoyuan Luo
English | March 20, 2024 | ISBN: 981999358X | 253 pages | MOBI | 33 Mb
As one of the core equipments and actuators, robotic technology has attracted much attention and has made great progress. However, a single robotic system is often unable to handle complex tasks due to limitations in sensors, microprocessors, actuators, and the ability to handle complex situations. With the development of distributed control and microprocessing technology, networked robotic systems have greatly expanded their perceptual, computational, and execution capabilities, with high efficiency, low cost, and strong functionality advantages. As a typical distributed cyber-physical system (DCPS), which is an intelligent system that integrates computing, communication, and control, networked robotic systems can perform higher-level tasks by sharing information and working together. It can provide intelligent control and monitoring of a physical process, such as environment observation, information collection, and search and rescue, etc. Thus, coordination control of networked robotic systems has become the focus of scholars worldwide. However, the sensing, communication, and control integration of networked robotic systems make them face unprecedented network security threats, in which cyber attacks have become a major hidden danger to the reliable operation of autonomous unmanned systems. Although existing control methods can achieve swarm collaborative control of networked robotic systems, the protection of which, especially the security of control systems, is rarely addressed.

Free Download Java Programming For Robotic Development With Simbad And Webots: A Hands-on Beginner’s Guide to Building Autonomous Robots with Simbad, Webots, Artificial … Real-World Applications by Alex Caldwell
English | November 1, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DLS6KLZN | 184 pages | EPUB | 0.36 Mb
Unlock the potential of Java programming for robotic development with Simbad and Webots.This comprehensive guide provides a hands-on introduction to designing and building intelligent robots using Java, Simbad, and Webots.

Free Download Spyros G. Tzafestas, "Intelligent Robotic Systems"
English | 1991 | pages: 737 | ISBN: 082478135X | PDF | 150,5 mb
A multiplicity of techniques and angles of attack are incorporated in 18 contributions describing recent developments in the structure, architecture, programming, control, and implementation of industrial robots capable of performing intelligent action and decision making. Annotation copyright Book

Free Download Atlas of Robotic Thoracic Surgery by Kemp Kernstine
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 279 Pages | ISBN : 3319645064 | 142.90 MB
This book represents the definitive robotic thoracic surgery atlas, containing didactic material necessary to facilitate effective practice in thoracic surgery and to provide learning tools in these methods both to practicing surgeons and to those in training. It defines the complete operative pathway for each procedure for surgeons who wish to be a complete robotic cardiothoracic surgeon and includes hints and procedural pitfalls derived from the experiences of chapter contributors.